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The article covered District Attorney Alvin Braggs’ prosecution of Trump, accusing Bragg of manipulating business records. It’s ironic that Trump is manipulating coverage of this topic. The National Review is right leaning and supports DJT, but Trump nonetheless deleted many inconvenient facts from the piece. Here’s a summary of the unfavorable items that DJT deleted from the National Review article (the original NR article is here):
1. Stormy Daniels claim of an affair with Trump is credible
2. Trump's bookkeeping “might indeed have been a minor crime”
3. Federal prosecutors probably believe Trump’s NDA was “motivated by his election prospects”
4. The hush money “expenditure [is] within the coverage of federal campaign-finance law”
5. An admission that “Trump booked” the hush money payment “as if it had been for a different purpose”
6. Trump's payment to then lawyer Michael Cohen “significantly exceeded the $130,000 loan amount”
7. Trump insisting that he was paying Cohen for legal services "would muddy the water"
8. Trump’s Access Hollywood tape will be heard a evidence
9. Trump boasted “about being sexually aggressive with women” in the Access Hollywood tape
10. Trump wanted to cover up his “unsavory disclosures of a sexual nature” after the Access Hollywood tape story broke “about a month before Election Day”
11. Trump’s National Enquirer friends alerted Cohen to Stormy Daniels “demand to be paid for her silence”
12. Trump wanted to delay payment hoping Election Day would pass and he could pay less, but pressure from Daniels’ lawyer remained
13. Cohen paid Stormy Daniels on October 26 “after getting assurance that Trump would pay him back post-election”
14. Trump’s affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal and subsequent effort to buy McDougal’s silence will be used as evidence against Trump
15. Trump’s effort to payoff a Trump Tower doorman who claimed “that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock in the 1980s”
16. Bragg claims these payoffs are campaign expenditures that Trump was attempting to hide
17. Bragg is attempting to prove Trump committed a felony under New York’s business records falsification provision and acted with “an intent to defraud” which included “an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the admission thereof”
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizuresince 1993 during Blinken visitIsrael’s far-right [authoritarian] finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group.Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law. Still, Israel has used land orders like the one issued Friday to gain control over 16 percent of Palestinian-controlled lands in the West Bank.More than 40 percent of the West Bank is under the control of Israeli settlers, according to the Israel-based rights group B’Tselem, and more than half-a-million Jewish residents now live in the West Bank. Israel’s government has also used incentive programs to move Jewish residents into West Bank settlements, where more than 200 settlements and unofficial outposts have fractured the Palestinian territory and displaced Palestinian residents. In recent years, the Housing Ministry has offered subsidized apartments in the West Bank through a lottery system.
Palestinians have little ability to stop the land transfers. After the 1967 war, Israel issued a military order that stopped the process of land registration across the West Bank. Now families lack the paperwork to prove that they have private ownership over their land. And tax records, the only other evidence of West Bank property rights, are not accepted by Israeli authorities.
Appeals court pauses $464M judgment in Trump’sNew York fraud caseA New York appeals court on Monday temporarily stopped the clock on the looming enforcement of a multimillion-dollar judgment against former President Trump and his company over deceitful business practices.
In a terse order, a five-judge state appeals court panel said it would pause the enforcement of the $464 million judgment against Trump, the Trump Organization and top executives, plus interest, if within 10 days they post a $175 million bond.
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office had urged the state appeals court to make Trump put up a full bond before pausing the eye-popping judgment.
The office argued that there is no rule limiting Trump to a single bond from a single surety for the full judgment amount. Instead, he could seek several bonds to limit “any individual surety’s risk” and still post the full amount, they said.
The appeals court order Monday also paused the enforcement of other penalties, including those barring Trump and top executives from serving in top leadership positions in New York businesses for several years.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting from the GOP.
The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she “absolutely” would not vote for him.
“I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind,” Murkowski told CNN. “I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”
Reddit may need to ramp up spending oncontent moderation, analysts sayReddit will need to spend heavily on content moderation as it may face greater scrutiny as a public company, analysts said, threatening its longstanding policy of relying on an army of volunteers to maintain order on its platform.
The newly listed company warned in its initial public offering (IPO) paperwork that its unique approach to content moderation can sometimes subject it to disruptions like in 2023, when several moderators protested against its decision to charge third-party app developers for access to its data.Depending on volunteers is not sustainable, given the regulatory scrutiny that the company will now face, said Julian Klymochko, CEO of alternative investment solutions firm Accelerate Financial Technologies.
“It's like relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue,” he added. Reddit reported revenue of $804 million in 2023, according to an earlier filing.
Reddit will need to make substantial investments in trust and safety, which could lead to a “dramatic” rise in expenses, Klymochko said.
A spokesperson for Reddit said that alongside moderators, it also had robust internal safety teams, which used a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and human review to enforce its content policy.
The company would need to ramp up spending on anti-misinformation efforts especially as the U.S. prepares for the presidential election later this year.
Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946—the night of a total lunar eclipse. Both his temperament and the way he projects publicly reflects the astrological affects of such an afflicted birthday chart.
Joe Biden
Joe Biden’s birth chart shows that he has 4 planets (Sun, Mercury, Venus, & Mars) in Scorpio as follows. He also has two planets in Gemini.
These planet placements and other key configurations and transits reveal a character who will say and do anything — ANYTHING — whatsoever to advance his very narrow and self-interested scorpionic [SATANIC] agenda.
First, look at how the communist-run Democrat Party completely destroyed Trump’s presidency at every turn.
Then consider the COVID-19 biowar waged against the American people in 2020, as well as the weaponized Covid ‘vaccines’ since the end of that same year. The Covid killshots, clotshots and cancershots will be killing Americans for decades to come.
Then there was the most brazenly stolen POTUS election in November of that same year followed by the COINTELPRO-staged J6 entrapment scheme of 2021 run by the U.S. Intelligence Community.
However, what we are seeing with the April 8th total solar eclipse is a withering campaign of predictive programming and social engineering the likes of which the US citizenry has never been exposed to. The entire Mainstream Media has never been so determined to get every single American outside to watch this quite dramatic daytime blocking of the solar rays. Remember the dark side knows the secret workings of astrology, numerology, alchemy, geomancy and all the other occult arts and sciences.
Hence, TPTB really want everyone on planet Earth staring at this eclipse for as long as possible as it will greatly facilitate the next phase of their New World Order implementation plan and especially the long planned Great Reset.
Lastly, as if that’s not enough to deal with, there is also the 2024 return of the ‘horned’ comet 12P/Pons-Brooks also known as the Devil’s comet. In fact, this comet is forecast to reach the brightest point in its 2024 apparition on 21 April, which makes for an exceptionally interesting and explosive month of April.
It’s not often that a poll result causes me to do a double take. This month, however, a Pew Research Center survey grabbed my attention. As part of a comprehensive poll on the importance of religion in public life, Pew compared Americans’ knowledge of and support for Christian nationalism between September 2022 and February 2024 and found no meaningful change at all. The exact same percentage of Americans said they’d heard or read about Christian nationalism — 45 percent in 2022 and 45 percent in 2024. The exact same percentage of Americans said they’d never heard or read about Christian nationalism — 54 percent in both years.
The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized my surprise was misplaced. .... The Hidden Tribes of America project, which was put together by a group called More in Common. It surveyed 8,000 Americans to try to explore their attitudes and conflicts beyond the red-blue divide, and one of its central conclusions is critical to understanding the modern moment: Only a minority of Americans are truly active in political debates, and they’re exhausting and alienating the rest of the country.One-third of Democrats post political content on social media; two-thirds do not. And the differences between the two groups were significant. Online Democrats were far more liberal, disproportionately white and far more likely to engage in activism, such as attending a protest or donating to a candidate. .... The highly polarized left and the highly polarized right shared characteristics. For example, the most polarized conservatives are also disproportionately white and are almost twice as likely to list politics as a hobby.One friend told me, “I got sick of the constant rage.” So he deleted his social media accounts, turned his cable television from Fox News to ESPN and never looked back. “My blood pressure is down,” he said, “and I’m a better husband and father.” Good for him, I thought, but bad for us. Another decent man has disengaged. Another member of the jury has left the courtroom.
Definitions of the term are highly contested, so a group monitoring antisemitism on Columbia University’s campus has avoided picking sides. It is still facing criticism.
A Columbia University task force set up to combat antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks is attempting to avoid one of the most contentious issues in university debates over the war: Its members have refused to settle on what the definition of “antisemitism” is.
Competing factions on campus and beyond are pushing for two different definitions. The first, favored by the U.S. State Department and many supporters of Israel, says “targeting of the state of Israel” could be antisemitic, a definition that could label much of the pro-Palestinian activism sweeping campus as antisemitic.
The second is narrower. It distinguishes between anti-Zionism and antisemitism and could lead to criticism that the school is not taking antisemitism seriously enough.
The debate over the definitions has become a lightning rod for the Columbia task force and for other universities around the country. The task force is charged with “understanding how antisemitism manifests on campus” and improving the climate for Jewish faculty and students. But the refusal to pick a definition has also been met with harsh criticism on both sides.
“If you don’t diagnose the problem, you don’t have to deal with it,” said Shai Davidai, a Columbia professor who is Israeli and favors the more sweeping definition. He added, “Saying we don’t want to define it so we don’t have a problem, that’s copping out.”
Pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist faculty and students, quite a few of whom are Jewish, fear that without a definition, the antisemitism task force could be too sweeping in the speech and activity it seeks to regulate.
